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This 3 page paper discusses what happened to Puritanism in England after many Puritans emigrated to North America. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Changes in Puritanism Research Compiled
by K. Von Huben 10/2010 Please Introduction The story of the Puritans is fairly well-known: how they left England to escape
persecution and established colonies in North America. This paper considers a different aspect of the story: what happened to Puritanism after the dissenters left England. Discussion Research on this topic
has been somewhat difficult, since it tackles the story from the "wrong" end. It seems that few historians were interested in what happened to the religion that was left behind
(no pun intended). The English Puritans were known for "their extremely critical attitude regarding the religious compromises made during the reign of Elizabeth I" (Puritanism, Puritans, 2010). They believed in
"direct personal religious experience, sincere moral conduct, and simple worship services," the last being the area they were most interested in changing (Puritanism, Puritans, 2010). When James I took the
throne, the Puritans asked him to make reforms (Puritanism, Puritans, 2010). The result of their request was that James "convened a meeting of bishops and Puritans at Hampton Court in
1604," known as the "Hampton Court conference" (Streich, 2009). The conference could hardly have gone worse for the Puritan cause: it resulted in all Puritan proposals being dismissed; the single
good thing to come out of it was the publication of a new Bible, the King James version, which appeared in 1611 (Streich, 2009). But the Puritans were simply ignored,
creating an adversarial relationship between them and the government. When James I died in 1625, his son Charles I took the throne, but his reign brought no relief to the
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